NebularNerd
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2 years ago You should be able to, you can mount multiple floppy images into DosBox at once using:
imgmount a disk1.img disk2.img disk3.img -t floppy -ro or from the GUI menu Drive->A->Mount multiple disc/CD images
Add as many images as you need and adjust naming and path correctly. I would suggest including the -ro to mark the disk images as read only, just in case. You can read more about image mounting on the DosBox-X wiki
Once you've got your images mounted you can start the unpack/recover and change disks when needed with F11+O (the letter O) or DOS-> Swap Floppy Drive or Drive->A->Swap Disc.
EDIT:
Just reread the question and missed something. If you have the actual files (not floppy images) in separate folders you can mount each folder as Drive A: using Drive->A->Mount Folder As Floppy then on each swap you would need to Drive->A->Unmount drive then folder mount the next 'disc' folder.
or
If the backup program was made smart enough in the day you may be able to get away with putting all the files in one folder then when you start the unpack it will simply pick up each following file.
Please use copies/backups before experimenting if this is valuable data
Hope that helps. 🙂
Ftmseeker
Question
I have 13 files containing a single backup for FTM family tree created in Dos/Win. Trying to recover these into a single file so that it can be converted to compatible data for current program. Problem is that reading 1st floppy the system waits for the next one to append, which cannot be loaded. Would dosbox-x handle this chaining as the real 1995 version did? (The files are currently in separate hdd folders but could be written back to floppy’s if this wouldn’t mess up the chaining )
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